Images in the Borderlands: The Mediterranean Between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period (Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the World)

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This volume offers a unique exploration into the cultural history of the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period by examining the region through the prism of Christian-Muslim encounters and conflicts and the way in which such relationships were represented in art works from the time. Taking images from the period as its starting point, this interdisciplinary work draws together contributors from fields as varied as cultural history, art history, archaeology, and the political sciences in order to reconstruct the history of a region that was often construed in the Early Modern period as a 'borderland' between religions. From discussions of borders as both physical construction and mental construct in the Mediterranean to case studies exploring the Battle of Lepanto, and from analyses of art work produced from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries to a consideration of the influence of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin, the chapters gathered together in this insightful volume provide a new approach to our understanding of Early Modern Mediterranean history. Front Matter Introduction Ivana Čapeta Rakić and Giuseppe Capriotti. Images in the Borderlands Part 1. Borderland: The Mediterranean Basin between the Two Worlds Peter Burke. Rival Legacies: Islamic Art in Early Modern Europe Ivan Alduk. Zadvarje (Duare): The Fate of a Fortress at the Border of Two Worlds Ferenc Tóth. The Bastions of the Ottoman Capital. The Fortresses of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus Seen by French Military Engineers, Diplomats, and Travellers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Ana Echevarria. The Image of Elite Corps, from Al-Andalus to Lepanto Part 2. Lepanto: The Image and the Reflection of the Battle in the Mediterranean Basin and Beyond Laura Stagno. Between Liguria and Southern Piedmont: Images of Lepanto in Religious Contexts Chiara Giulia Morandi. Heroic Comparisons in Images of Christian Political and Military Leaders Engaged in the Wars against the Turks: Some Observations Starting from the Battle of Lepanto (1571) Juan Chiva and Víctor Mínguez. Johannes Sambucus’s Arcvs aliqvot trivmphal (Antwerp, 1572): Visual and Written Propaganda for the Victor at Lepanto Naz Defne Kut. On the Other Hand: The Battle of Lepanto in Ottoman Sources Part 3. Circulation: From Ancient to Modern, across Imagined and Secret Battles Reflected in Images Angelo Maria Monaco. The Rhetorical Index in the Portraits of Mehmed II: Some Episodes between Words and Images, from the West Shore of the Mediterranean Cristelle Baskins and
Borja Franco Llopis. Representing Africa in the Exequies for King Philip II Maria Luisa Ricci. Old and New Enemies in Ancient and Modern Battles: Anachronisms in Three Works by Mattia Preti in Malta Francesco Sorce. ‘Macometto in Una Nugola Nera’ (Muhammad in a Black Cloud): The Imaginary War of Giovanni da San Giovanni (and Ferdinando II de’ Medici) at Palazzo Pitti Iván Rega Castro. ‘At his Feet’: The Image of the Eastern Prisoner in Late Baroque Iberian Public Sculptures Index